Community Service

A major way in which the school interacts with our community is through our well-established community service program. This program, in which all students participate, has a beneficial impact on our local community, its service organizations, and our environment. Moreover, the program provides valuable learning experiences for our students.

As a school, we believe community service:

Instills in students a sense of volunteerism.
Helps student recognize the value of contributing to a larger community.
Enlarges student's understanding of the world by doing works of service.
Allows the school to share its resources and strengths with the wider community and connect with the neighborhood and local institutions.
Develops each student's understanding of his or her abilities to improve his or her surroundings.
Inspires responsibility and personal growth in students.
Motivates students to consider and act upon issues of social justice and civic responsibility.
Fosters a commitment to a lifetime of effective participation in public life.

Community service provides opportunities to share with and learn from people of different ages, abilities, cultures, and educational backgrounds. It offers opportunities for independent learning and leadership outside the classroom, and it allows students to translate ideas and ideals in to action.

Community service provides opportunities to share with and learn from people of different ages, abilities, cultures, and educational backgrounds. It offers opportunities for independent learning and leadership outside the classroom, and it allows students to translate ideas and ideals in to action.

Community Service News

  • Community Volunteer Fair

    Posted 5.8.08

    Senior Max Hardy and Rebeca Matthews, community service coordinator, met with Assembly member Brennan's office to help plan an upcoming community volunteer fair. Several BC students will serve as Service Ambassadors to the public. Please join them at this important community event.

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  • Chocolate Kisses Lead to Peace

    Posted 2.14.08

    In all, around $200 was raised from the project, which the students will send to Save Darfur. The project was part of an international project called the Valentine's Peace Project. Click on "read more" for details.

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  • "Empty Bowls" A Success!

    Posted 11.20.07

    Over the course of two days, over 500 "empty bowls" were sold and over $6,000 was raised for Heifer International. Congratulations on a truly successful fundraiser! Click on "read more" to read the story.

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  • Middle School Students are "Best Buddies"

    Posted 10.31.07

    Through Best Buddies, an international nonprofit dedicated to enhancing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, 22 Middle School students are forging relationships with autistic students at a local school. Click "read more" to find out about it and see the photos.

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  • Upper School Tackles World Hunger

    Posted 10.16.07

    Rochelle Pollock spoke movingly to the Upper School on October 16 about Heifer International, a nonprofit organization charged with addressing world hunger, one person at a time. Max Hardy, student council president, told the students, "if we solve our hunger problems in the United States it will have a positive domino effect on the rest of the world." The World Hunger Day assembly ushered in the school's Empty Bowls project, a Lincoln Place--wide ceramic bowl-making extravaganza. There's much more (including photos) on this subject, so please "read more."

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